Living Shadow Dances on Giant Electric Sign (Mar, 1941)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1941
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1941
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Tags: giant sized
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Living Shadow Dances on Giant Electric Sign
PIROUETTING in front of a bank of photo-electric cells, Dixie Dunbar, New York dancer, recently cast a living silhouette on the world’s largest animated electric sign above the Great White Way. Her shadow, thrown on the electric eyes, blacked out lights in corresponding areas of the sign. In regular operation, animated-cartoon silhouettes are projected on the cells from a movie film.
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